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How could EU enforce the break? Google doesn't need branches in EU to exist. It could do all business with EU customers via Switzerland. Sure, no more Google jobs in EU, but that's surely a better outcome than being forced to split?

It could only work if EU pushed a law forcing all ISPs to block all requests to google, but that's never going to happen.

Why are (were?) you so concentrated on Latvia? That's like starting an online business limited only to the inhabitants of a middle-sized city.

Given your energy, I'm certain you will create something big someday.

>At some level I know that neither of these responses can be fully trusted, and yet I can't shake the feeling that one can be trusted and the other cannot. How can this be?

David Appell said it himself that what he believes isn't based in fact and can't be disproven in any way, in other words, a religious belief. Seems you just prefer science to religion.

"In climate science you can’t “predict” anything — climate models aren’t capable of predicting, because no one can read the future."

Original idea, though I don't think that's how it is to be a bat... it's an unfiltered output from echolocation. Human brain does ton of processing with visual stimuli. I think a view in which detected objects fade very slowly (several seconds at least) would be a better translation of bat's experience.

The causation is simple - hypericin becomes toxic when activated by light. While that doesn't mean that it definitely causes cataracts, given available data I think it's more likely that it does.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16814590 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19739671

Why do you want natural drugs only?

If you want natural, I would try tobacco (it can be snuff, no need to smoke, although smoking works faster). For synthesized, try moclobemide.

How would you describe your symptoms?

Warning: Saint John's Wort can cause cataracts if used for a long time.

>When I run out I feel pretty bad and eventually go get more.

The same applies to caffeine. It's a very mild, short-term physical addiction. Nicotine replacement probably helped a bit, but I think you would be successful even without them.

I like nicotine too, for short term effects.

The problem is not tobacco or nicotine, it's smoke.

Nicotine alone isn't really addictive and yields almost no reward [0], which is why nicotine replacement therapies are so useless [1]. It's only addictive due to other substances, majorly MAO inhibitors. However, these same MAOIs protect tobacco users against Parkinson's disease [2]. Given all that, along with mild caffeine-like effect from nicotine, smokeless tobacco (including tobacco extract eliquids) is probably beneficial. Banning tobacco in general would be very bad.

[0] http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593.full [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12429/abstrac... [2] http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/155/8/732.full

Wow, this is awesome. 85kg limit is a bit of a bummer though.

A programming language is not a natural language. The quote refers to Hoon specifically.

Seems fun, because I didn't understand everything while skimming the website.

>We use so many of these ASCII glyphs that we like to be able to read them out loud. A language is meant to be said.

That's a very weird idea there. A painting is a form of language, but can a painting be said?

Bitcoin has value because it's the best and often the only way to buy drugs (scheduled and prescription) online.

>It's understood that that gold still backs US currency, in a more abstract, unpromised way.

This has nothing to do with value. Gold is almost completely useless - its value is overwhelmingly due to speculation. Dollar is backed by enforceable debts. No better backing is possible. With gold, you're only hoping that somebody will buy it from you, for unclear reason.

2W smartphone-sized betavoltaics battery is practical, with a possible lifetime of several decades. The problem is it would be a regulation nightmare.

So many problems due to regulation, mostly that in the labor market... Solution to 1 and 2: allow jobless youth from Southern Europe into Japan. This will help solve 3 and 10, as now these countries are spending significant money on these nonproductive youth - this can instead be invested.

Test pilots are not Adam Roger's property. He doesn't have any right to decree whether it's acceptable or too dangerous to do. Nobody is forcing anyone to become a test pilot.

What a disgusting, totalitarian mindset.

Earth doesn't need saving, it's perfectly fine. Regardless, in a world with practical interstellar travel local damage is irrelevant - the universe is infinite. Milky Way alone contains at least 100 billion planets.

Want to tell a cat to follow you? Stare him in the eyes, then drag your eyes slowly, turn back and start going. The reverse is true too - that's how a cat tells you to follow you. For a "no" or "get away" I found hissing to be the most effective.

>“Cats don’t understand glass, but they do understand height,” Buffington says

This statement is false, my cat definitely understands what glass is.

Assuming their life expenses were paid (hard to imagine they weren't - how would they survive?), what's wrong with that? It's illegal, but that's it.

>Math system is fully polymorphic

Does it have fully polymorphic other basic functions, like setq, eql (or however they are named)? I guess not? Do you plan on introducing some parts of CLOS?

Lack of OO integration in CL is one of its biggest drawback for me... for me CLOS was the most powerful thing in lisp, not macros (mostly because they are not dynamic).

This seems to be a very fun language to write in, in the same way optimizing assembly code in the ancient times was fun; the age of skilled artisans. Unfortunately (for programmers - great for the rest) now is the time of a factory worker. Due to that, I don't think this language and its platform has a long future.

Its continued survival is rather a testament to excellency of marketing (as evidenced by this article!) rather than actual merits.

>And there would be literally no demand for it, because the overwhelming majority of people don't care about talking to robots. They already don't have enough time to spend with their children, partners, friends, parents... why would anyone waste time with a fake person?

People don't care about talking with robots because robots aren't able to hold conversations today. A "fake person" is an advantage - it doesn't have needs. It won't manipulate you, it won't think less of you, it won't get angry at you, it won't feel bad because you did something, it has perfect memory and unquestioning loyalty. It's always available. Best of all - if you want it to have the reverse of the above properties, you can always switch it on. Want an arrogant robotic friend? Just go to the settings.

I'm pretty sure most people would prefer robots to humans. Obviously, almost nobody would admit this today.

No "the poor", but "the idiots". The family described isn't even poor, but they waste so much money trying to live a middle class lifestyle they live seriously below their means.

You're poor if you have serious problems having food and a basic place to live in at the same time, without spending anything on bullshit. If your problem is 'I can't afford this sofa', or a new ipad, you aren't poor, you just aren't wealthy.

Security of firefox is beyond awful [0]. The same is true of all currently used browsers - almost certainly each has several unpatched remote code execution holes. The overwhelming majority of professional bug finding people are either working for the government(s) or selling bugs/exploits to them. These bugs aren't getting reported to the vendor. The occasional ones that are, are either reported by hobbyists, or professionals for marketing purposes.

You're the perfect example why tor browser is so bad.

>was only used against older Windows boxes

It was only used against windows systems, but it was a firefox exploit.

[0] http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-452/p...

Tor Browser is an abomination. I don't know of any other software with lower ratio of real security to expected security (by the average user). See the Freedom Hosting story [0] for an example why. This time it was about pedophiles, but this danger holds for everyone, from users of silkroad clones to opposition in totalitarian countries.

Tor Browser is making tor more accessible to average computer user in the same way selling minefields cheaply makes real estate more accessible to average human.

The only reasonable way of using tor for even remotely illegal purposes is by using whonix, or roughly equivalent schemes (eg. a tor-only router + tails).

[0] http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/05/freedom-hosting-a...

Removing 'useless' organs like gall bladder, as a standard practice, would be catastrophic. Civilization is not a given, people can get stranded on uninhabited islands even today. Having these ancient adaptations in these situations can make the difference between life and death.

Ok, I did a test. "zero to one" in Google - all results on the first page are book related. In Bing - not even ONE result is about the book, instead I got things like "0 (number)" (Wikipedia), "nhibernate - Modeling one to zero or one" (a stackoverflow question), a clock named "onezero", "Zero Hour" movie on imdb... It's in 'related searches' but that's it.

Not book related results are ok, but not even one book related link in the first five pages? I think I will stay with Google for now.

(I did this in private mode to disable Google search personalization).

edit: Ok, Bing starts showing the book when I change location to United States. Default results are these [0]. Seems they really need to work on their location-related personalization, these results are complete trash.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/v5LqSBB.png

Lem: "Dialogs" - essays about consciousness uploading and its nature, construction of AI and self-replicating organisms.

Russia is just oppressive in general, in all aspects. You might want to read "Letters from Russia" by Astolphe marquis de Custine for a historic perspective. That was Russia under tsars, it was much worse after revolution, until Stalin's death.

In the entire Russian history there never was a period when an average citizen could feel free. How could it feel 'happy' now?

I am jealous of your energy.

One tip for quick and one time easy money, in similar vein to exploiting dupe bugs (especially when it comes to people dismissing it as impossible :) - sport betting odds arbitrage. Made ~35% in one month. At the end of it, I was banned almost everywhere, which is why it's an one time affair (unless you start to use fake identities - I didn't).